{"product_id":"one-mile-and-two-days-before-sunset-9780374227036","title":"One Mile and Two Days Before Sunset","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn Shimon Adaf's Lost Detective Trilogy, what begins as conventional mystery becomes by degrees a brilliant deconstruction not just of genre but of our own search for meaning. Both profound and compulsively readable, these books demand to be devoured. --Lavie Tidhar\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt age thirty, Elish Ben Zaken has found himself in a life he never imagined. As a university student, Elish was an esteemed rock-music critic for local newspapers; now, disenchanted with an increasingly commercialized music scene, he has joined a private investigation agency where he is content to be a \"clerk of small human sins\"--a finder of stolen cars and wayward husbands. But when a disconcertingly amiable detective asks him to look into the suicide of an infamous philosophy professor--and the police file contains an unexpected allusion to Dalia Shushan, a celebrated young rock singer whose recent murder remains unsolved--Elish's natural curiosity is piqued. And when violence begins to dog the steps of his investigation, he knows that dangerous secrets are at hand. Haunted by the ghost of Dalia, a true artist with a transformative voice whose dark brilliance Elish was one of the first to recognize, he must face the long-buried trauma of his own past in order to unravel the intertwining threads of two lives, and their ends. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Elish, Shimon Adaf has created an unforgettable protagonist. A former philosophy student with a questing mind, born to Moroccan parents and raised in an outlying town, he is an eternal outsider in cosmopolitan Tel Aviv. Equally, \u003ci\u003eOne Mile and Two Days Before Sunset\u003c\/i\u003e is a detective novel unlike any other: an incisive portrait of a man and a city, and a meditation on disappointment, on striving for beauty and for intensity of experience, and on the futile desire to truly know another person.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/02\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374227036\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336","brand":"Shimon Adaf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42183774830773,"sku":"9780374227036","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_0c2f7251-270d-486b-81c1-52c2cfbb3764.jpg?v=1654570769","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/one-mile-and-two-days-before-sunset-9780374227036","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}